Be Bare Too 9-6-08 May 2026

Written in Scots dialect, describing "revellers drinking through the night" and "hordes o' bonnie lasses". Competition | 6 September 2008 | The Spectator

The phrase "And youthful bodies bare" is a line from one of the winning entries, specifically a parody of A.E. Housman written by Basil Ransome-Davies. Be Bare Too 9-6-08

A somber take on the festival crowds at Glastonbury's fields. Written in Scots dialect

The feature included several winning poems that reimagined the music festival through the voices of poets like Wilfred Owen , Robert Burns , and John Milton . Other Winning Entries (9-6-08) Be Bare Too 9-6-08

It was a literary competition hosted by The Spectator (Competition No. 2560) that challenged entrants to write a poem about the Glastonbury Festival in the style of a famous deceased poet.